Historical and genealogical account of the Clan Maclean

180 HISTORICAL NOTICES.
least of their duty, and thereof they would have been
silent, if treason, rebellion, and open opposition to his
majesty's authority were not loudly charged upon them
in this complaint. But immediate ground of the troubles
and difficulties of this family is, that in the year 1642
the late Marquis, considering the aversion Sir Lauchlan
Mac-Lean had to the courses of those times, and how
ready he would be on every occasion to appear for his
majesty's interest, the said Marquis, upon pretence of
some debts wherein he was cautioner for him, and upon
pretence of feu duties payable by Mac-Lean to the
Bishop of the Isles, for uplifting whereof the Marquis
had commission, and upon pretence of some by-gone
feu duties owing to his majesty, and some other pre-
tences of ammunition, contribution money, taxation,
and the like, did by his power at the time necessitate
Sir Lauchlan to give him a bond for 14,000 pounds,
and to subscribe an ace' 16,000 pounds, bearing an
obligement to pay that sum and annual rents. But
thereafter Sir Lauchlan having joined Montrose, and
his lands being burnt and destroyed for his opposition
to the public for the time, he was neither in condition to
quarrel the said debts nor to pay the same, and having
died under these distresses, Sir Hector his son, being-
very young and unacquainted with his father's affairs,
— he, in the year 1650, did pay to the Marquis 10,000
pounds, and notwithstanding gave him a bond of cor-
roboration for 60,000 pounds, in which the foresaid
80,000 pounds and annual rents were accumulated. But
Sir Hector having been killed in his majesty's service,
as is above mentioned, albeit Sir Allan was minor, and
that the friends of that family were altogether ruined
in their fortunes by their constant adherence to his.